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Wednesday, January 30, 2019
And Everywhere There Was Song And Celebration
Mitchell was sitting in the front row at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as Graham Nash; James Taylor; Norah Jones; Kris Kristofferson; Diana Krall; Chaka Khan; Cesar Castro and Xochi Flores; Glen Hansard; Emmylou Harris; Seal; Rufus Wainwright; Brandi Carlile; and Los Lobos with Marisoul joined together to celebrate her 75th birthday. The film will be screened at Music Box Theatre and AMC River East 21 in Chicago, as well as at theaters in Lincolnshire, Vernon Hills, South Barrington, Addison, Rosemont, Crystal Lake, and other Chicago suburbs.
In related news, a collection of Joni Mitchell photographs taken over several years by Rowland Scherman, Patrick Harbron, Jay Blakesberg, Norman Seeff, Joel Bernstein, Graham Nash, Guido Harari, Henry Diltz, David Gahr, and Ken Regan will be featured in an exhibit at LeeAnn Brook Fine Art in Nevada City, CA, in collaboration with the Morrison Hotel Gallery. The opening reception this Friday from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. will include Diltz and Bernstein as special guests. The exhibit runs through February 28.
Norman Seeff's hardcover book Joni: The Joni Mitchell Sessions came out in December, 2018. His photos graced the covers of Mitchell's Hejira and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter albums, and he's also known for his iconic photographs of Ray Charles, Patti Smith, and Carly Simon.
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Labor officials sweep through Stamford construction sites
Labor agencies making effort to halt alleged payroll, workers' compensation fraud
STAMFORD -- State and federal labor officials swept through four large construction sites in the South End and downtown Wednesday morning as part of an ongoing crackdown on employment fraud.
Working with city police, the state labor officials, with additional Spanish-speaking agents from the U.S. Department of Labor, corralled workers to determine if they were being paid on the books with appropriate taxes being withheld and workers' compensation insurance filed.
"We put a coordinated effort together to determine what is actually going on down here, rather than just come one at a time," said Gary Pechie, director of the Connecticut Department of Labor's Wages and Workplace Standards Division.
"We have heard they would move people from site to site and we never can keep them at one location. So, here, they could not move on us. So it's a new investigative technique we are trying out down in Stamford."
The Department of Labor is investigating if any of the subcontractors working at the sites have engaged in payroll fraud. The results of Wednesday's sweep may not be revealed for two weeks, but one subcontractor was cited for criminal violations for not paying workers for the past three weeks.
The inspectors targeted three sites being built by Building and Land Technology within its 80-acre Harbor Point development in the South End, as well as a Norwalk-based Greenfield Partners project on the former Advocate site at Washington and Tresser boulevards.
Having picketed some of these same work sites for months if not years, Charlie LeConche, business manager for the Connecticut Laborers District Council for the Laborers International Union of North America said he could hardly believe such a large scale crackdown was under way.
"I am the happiest guy in the world that the agencies that have been charged with the administrative duty to protect the Connecticut taxpayer and worker are trying to ensure justice in the workplace," he said. LeConche said by getting laborers to picket some of these developments, he has been trying to expose injustice and the exploitation of workers who are less fortunate.
LeConche said he has just paid for a billboard truck that will drive around Stamford with the message, "Harbor Point Project BLT developers have retained contractors that break Connecticut construction laws."
Ted Duarte, senior organizer for New England Regional Council of Carpenters in Fairfield said, "I applaud the state for taking a proactive look at the industry. It is about time they started finding the cheaters."
Pechie said Wednesday's comprehensive inspection action involving about 20 employees of the labor department, OSHA and the U.S. Department of Labor was the first of its kind in the state. In the past, the inspections have been done one site at a time.
"We keep coming back here and it seems the message is not getting out to whoever should be making those choices that you have to put people on the payroll, that you have to cover for workers compensation and you have to pay payroll taxes," Pechie said.
Just after 9:30 a.m. in the frigid cold, about two dozen police officers were dispatched to the construction sites and kept workers from leaving before they could be interviewed. Capt. Thomas Wuennemann, who was stationed at the Pacific and Henry streets site, said no arrests were made and no incidents took place during the inspection.
Pechie said that he appreciated all the help from the Police Department, noting the city "really stepped up."
During the inspection, Pechie said his inspectors found one criminal violation. The company Heritage Sheetrock hadn't paid about 10 of its workers in three weeks.
Heritage's job at the 227-apartment unit construction site at the corner of Pacific and Henry streets was shut down with a stop-work order.
A man answering the phone at Heritage Sheetrock said the allegation was not true. He would not give his name and hung up.
Pechie said the Heritage foreman at the job site would not talk to labor officials during the inspection.
"It is just incredible that people would work in these kinds of conditions and work without pay. But that is how desperate some people are to get a wage," Pechie said.
In mid-November, state labor inspectors visited the Tresser Boulevard site where Greenfield is building a five-story luxury apartment building and found 22 workers out of 40 hired by a Texas rebar outfit who could not produce Social Security cards and were being paid under the table, Pechie said at the time. A stop-work order was placed on the job.
Robert Kowalski, area director for OSHA in Bridgeport, said he could not discuss the case and whether any violations were found at the four construction sites until a citation is issued. He said he had not yet had a chance to talk to his compliance officers to determine what course of action would be taken in relation to Wednesday's inspection.
Pechie said the department will try to determine how many of the 180 or so workers that were interviewed Wednesday morning were being employed legally.
"We are trying to stop people cheating. Not playing by the rules. We are trying to help the legitimate contractors and employees. We are certainly trying to help the labor force in Connecticut," Pechie said. "There are a lot of people looking for work, so why do you have to bring 100 workers up from Texas, which was what we heard was going on here."

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WITH the Sydney derby next week, and having seen their cross-town rivals pull off a most unlikely victory in the hours before, it felt like Western Sydney had to answer at Parramatta Stadium on Sunday. They left it late, but eventually that answer came.
The result looked done and dusted – a bore, scoreless draw – until the burly frame of Wanderers's substitute Dino Kresinger wrestled his way into the box.
After being booed when introduced as a second-half substitute, the Croatian had something to prove. Handled by Brisbane's Matt Jurman as he entered the box, Kresinger lumbered on, eventually going to ground.
With whatever voice they had left, the crowd roared for a penalty and referee Alan Milliner obliged. Shinji Ono calmly stroked home with the clock ticking into the 87th minute. Most of the 6755 fans on hand started chanting "Dino, Dino, Dino". How fortunes can change so quickly in this game.
But the points weren't safe yet. Not by a long shot. As injury time closed in, Matt Jurman's header was saved, inch perfect, on the line by Ante Covic.
Then Erik Paartalu let fly with a 30-metre screamer that crashed into the crossbar. That was followed by a Shane Stefanutto rocket that hit the post.
But no matter how hard Brisbane tried, the thing wouldn't go in. They would go home without a goal and without a point.
The result was all the more meritorious because Western Sydney were without two of their biggest attacking weapons, Mark Bridge and Aaron Mooy. Bridge was sidelined for the week with a groin strain while Mooy was busy putting free kicks in the top corner for the national team.
Mooy was joined in Hong Kong by Matt Smith, meaning James Donachie partnered Jurman at the back for the Roar.
The early signs seemed promising for Brisbane. They were fluid – not as fluid as it was last year, or the year before that, but more than they have been in the season so far.
Brisbane are at their best when they follow two simple rules. Obvious enough is keeping possession and quick passing, but the other, equally important, is movement. Through the lines, overlapping out wide, rotating in attack.
In their efforts to get it right, however, the Wanderers moved to counter-attack.
Eight minutes in, Yousouff Hersi let fly with what would have been a contender for goal of the season, had it actually gone in. Mateo Poljak and Ono also had decent efforts go just wide.
Brisbane still had their share of territory and possession but were struggling to create chances. That early intent faded rapidly and the Wanderers's back four started to play a higher line. Worst of all for Brisbane, towards the end of the half, they started getting lazy.
The worst offender – unfortunately so for the neutrals – was Thomas Broich. For every nice touch, a sloppy pass seemed to follow, at which point the German dropped his head and left others to track back. The moment where he skinned Nikolai Topor-Stanley, charged to the edge of the box and then crossed glibly summed up his day.
Restoring Broich to past glories will be a stern managerial test of Rado Vidosic. Get him right and the Roar, believe it or not, are still contenders. Until then, it's a frustrating wait for all concerned.
Brisbane at least began to grind in the second half, and hardly did the Wanderers get their foot on the ball for extended periods. Roar captain Massimo Murdocca was perhaps inspired by the statue of Ray Price outside and, for the day, took the nickname "Perpetual Motion". Besart Berisha was similarly lion-hearted.
However, that would count for nothing at the end. Despite having created virtually nothing in the second half, the Wanderers only needed only one moment to win it.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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Recruitment and new financial regulations were on the minds of many participants in a breakout session at SIFMA's annual meeting in New York this week.
"Financial services is no longer the destination of college graduates," said Lisa Kidd Hunt, an executive vice president at Charles Schwab. Bad publicity has made it hard to recruit a new crop of advisors, she said.
Schwab is addressing this problem in a couple of ways, according to Hunt. It is partnering with universities in Texas and Virginia to train advisors. It is also hiring interns for summer stints, and then bringing some of those into a three- to five-year investment advisor training program after graduation.
Hunt said that in order to increase the advisor cohort, a process has to be in place to provide new hires with skills.
John Taft, CEO of RBC Wealth Management — USA, freely admitted that not enough was being done either generally or at RBC to bolster advisor ranks. The average age of advisors is 50, he said, and they are being asked about succession plans.
Taft said RBC was now offering promising college graduates two courses in wealth management from which they could move into ready-made jobs.
Kent Christian, president of the financial network at Wells Fargo Advisors, said the firm's AG Edwards affiliate has an operational training section in which participants follow a curriculum focused on relationship management and teaming. The average age of trainees in the program is 36, he said.
What can the industry do to restore confidence and project a sense of accountability?
"Trust and confidence weigh on everyone," Hunt said.
Two things were critical to improve this situation, she said. One, to not be in the paper, by which she meant every new scandal further tarnishes the industry's image. Two, make compliance a top priority, despite the cost.
On a positive note, Taft pointed out that during the financial crisis, clients by and large continued to trust their advisors, even as their confidence in the financial industry plummeted. He said that fiduciaries had an obligation to put clients first, and that advisors should make clients aware of this.
On a similar note, Kim Tillotson Fleming, chairman and CEO of Heffren-Tillotson, said advisors must do a better job articulating their role, and improve their messaging about what they bring to clients.
"Clients want to feel we're doing something for them, not to them," Christian said.
The regulatory environment was a big concern of SIFMA panelists.
Hunt said some proposals in the regulatory pipeline would help boost investor confidence. And she echoed Mary Jo White's comments to the SIFMA audience in which the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said the agency would follow a policy of zero tolerance for misbehavior, saying this was a good thing.
Taft said a fiduciary standard of care written properly was the way to take the high road; one written badly could be a disaster. Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act should be the standard of behavior, he said.
Section 913 would impose the same fiduciary responsibilities on broker-dealers that apply to investment advisors. The SEC has been tasked under Section 913 with developing such a rule.
White said this mandate had a high priority on the agency's agenda. It was important to have a single standard, she said, so that investors would receive the same quality of advice from both advisors and broker-dealers. In the meantime, the Department of Labor is developing a separate proposal that would extend fiduciary responsibility to advisors of retirement plans and plan participants.
Taft called the DOL's effort the "worst single proposal," saying it would take the small saver out of the market. Criticism of the proposal has also swelled on Capitol Hill. In August, 10 Democratic senators urged the White House in a letter to delay the DOL proposal until after the SEC had acted. They worried that the two agencies were working at cross purposes, to the detriment mainly of Main Street investors.
The House of Representatives has passed the Retail Investor Protection Act, which would require the DOL to wait for the SEC to issue its fiduciary rule — and would add several extra steps for the SEC before making the rule. The bill stands little to no chance in the Senate.
White said she had entered discussions with Labor to achieve consistency in rulemaking.
Taft noted the biggest complaint he had heard from advisors was that they spent more and more time on administration. He said that how firms navigate through the onslaught of regulations would be a big differentiator among them.
Firms must have processes in place to do this, he said. They must get input from the field, and rely on teaming and technology.
Christiansen was less exercised by the increasing regulatory burden. He said he assumed a harmonized fiduciary standard would eventually be put in place, and this would be aligned with advisors' best practices.
Check out No Institution Too Small to Escape Scrutiny, SEC Chief Tells SIFMA on ThinkAdvisor.


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Gus West uses prepaid calling cards to keep in touch with friends in Nicaragua. Other than the Internet, this is the cheapest way to call internationally. "But you never know how many minutes you'll get out of a card. Some don't even work," he says.
As president of The Hispanic Institute, a non-profit based in Washington, D.C., West knows a lot about calling cards. His group tested hundreds of phone cards and found that on average they deliver about half the minutes promised. West says international calling cards "swindle" Hispanics in the U.S. out of close to $1 million dollars a day.
"Go to any store where these cards are sold and talk to anyone who uses them," he suggested to me, "and you will find that 100 percent of the people will tell you they've been victimized."
He was right. I went to a little convenience store in a mostly immigrant neighborhood in Seattle and had no problem finding unhappy customers.
"Sometimes you try to dial the number and it doesn't work," said Luis Garcia who buys prepaid cards to call family and friends in Mexico.
Griselda Valencia Sanchez said she often gets fewer minutes than promised. "You're in the middle of an important conversation and you get cut off."
Delia Osorio, who works at the store, told me customers frequently complain that they were cheated out of minutes. She uses the cards, too, and has the same problem.
An industry plagued by fraud
Americans spent about $4 billion on prepaid calling cards in 2007. That figure is expected to surpass $6 billion this year.
These cards are used by military families, foreign exchange students, recent immigrants and people with friends overseas. You can buy them at grocery stores, gas stations, newsstands, kiosks and over the Internet.
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Fees and more fees
Consumer groups and government regulators claim the bad actors in this industry use false or misleading advertising and ding customers with all sorts of junk fees – which may or may not be disclosed.
There are connection fees, hang-up fees, and maintenance fees. Some card companies charge 99 cents per call if you dial from a pay phone. Others round the charge up to the nearest three- or four-minute increment. Make a 30-second call and you could get whacked for four minutes. That's outrageous!
Most of these cards typically sell for between $2 and $10, so after all the fees are included; one short call can wipe out the value.
Do people who buy these cards really know about all these junk fees? Here's what William Kovacic, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission told Congress last month: "The disclaimers are frequently so small as to be nearly illegible and in language so vague as to be effectively incomprehensible." I've seen the fine print and in many cases you literally need a magnifying glass to read it.
Earlier this year, the FTC charged two major calling card distributors with cheating customers. In its lawsuits, the commission claims these firms charge hidden fees and make false statements about the number of minutes customers would receive.
During its investigation, the FTC bought and used dozens of calling cards from these two firms. None of the cards provided the number of minutes promised. On average, they delivered about half the minutes advertised. But in some cases it was much worse. A 360-minute card to Panama gave only 23 minutes of calling time.
Gerald Burns of Atlanta bought one of the company's cards to stay in touch with a friend in Africa. He used the card a couple of times, but the calls never went through. And yet he burned through all of the minutes. "This isn't right," he says. "This is a rip-off. They're taking unfair advantage of people."
Burns decided to contact the card company's customer service department. He tells me it was "an unbelievable chore" to get through. "I called and called and called," he says. When he finally reached a representative, Burns was told there was nothing that could be done; that's just how the card works.
More needs to be done
Congress may soon rein in this industry. The Calling Card Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 3402) passed the House last month. A similar bill (S. 2998) is now being considered in the Senate.
These bills would require companies to clearly disclose important information, including the total value of the card in dollars or calling minutes, a description of all terms and conditions, plus the service provider's name, customer service number, and hours of service. It would be illegal to charge for calls that don't connect.
In the meantime, how do you protect yourself? Make sure you find out about the fees and how calls are billed before you buy a card. Take the time to read the fine print.
And consider this advice from people who use these cards on a regular basis: Generally speaking, you'll get the most minutes from a prepaid card if you use it for one call. So buy small cards and use them up as you go.
If you've been ripped off, even if the loss isn't that great, file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. They want to hear from unhappy customers.
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - Elanco, the animal health division of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY), announced the closing of its acquisition of the animal health business of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, a Johnson &; Johnson Company. Elanco gained final approval from the European Commission today.
The acquisition continues Elanco's growth in Europe, diversifying the food animal portfolio while complementing our companion animal business, including the launch of our new Comfortis chewable flea tablet for dogs. Janssen's presence, pipeline and people will allow Elanco customers access to broader products and services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"The addition of a strong animal health team along with a number of highly respected brands will further strengthen Elanco's mission of delivering greater value for our customers," said Jeff Simmons, president of Elanco. "Elanco continues to invest in and reinforce its commitment to animal health, creating a unique growth opportunities at a time when many are consolidating."
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Though we have changed hearts if we truly believe in Christ, that does not mean we are not thoroughly affected by sin. Our minds, emotions, bodies, and everything else are tainted by our flesh—the fallenness that God does not eliminate ...Read More
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In his commentary Romans, Dr. R.C. Sproul writes, "[Paul] identifies himself not with the one who wills to do evil but with the one who wants to do right." The desire to love and please God, granted to us ...Read More
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John Calvin comments, "The Holy Spirit so prepares the godly that they are ready and strive to render obedience to God; but as their ability is not equal to what they wish, Paul says, that he found not what he ...Read More
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John Murray, in his commentary on Romans, writes that "the more sanctified [a Christian] becomes the more painful to him must be the presence in himself of that which contradicts the perfect standard of holiness." Though the power of sin ...Read More
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God never intended for sinners to justify themselves by keeping the law, but the law does remind us that God demands perfect obedience for justification. Because we cannot obey God perfectly, unconverted people seize the law and lower God's standards ...Read More
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We will discuss what it means to not be under law in the days ahead. Today, Dr. R.C. Sproul's commentary Romans will help us understand Paul's point: "We are no longer under the law in the sense of being ...Read More
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CAMDEN CO., N.C. (WTKR/CNN) - Bald eagles are federally protected, but experts say they're dying from bullets in North Carolina.
They're not being shot, but the lead found in hunters' bullets is making its way into their systems.
A male eagle found in Camden County is expected to make a full recovery but was weak, dehydrated and had lead poisoning.
Lou Browning with Hatteras Island Wildlife Rehabilitation says 70 to 80 percent of the eagles they treat have high levels of lead in their system, and the effects are devastating.
"Lethargic, it's limp, it may have vision problems, staggering legs not working correctly," Browning said.
This year alone, Browning say there have been nine cases of eagles found with lead poisoning in northeastern North Carolina.
"If they start showing other signs, that there has been so much damage to their system, then ethically you need to put them out of their misery," he said.
Browning says hunters are to blame for the heavy metal showing up their system.
"They're getting most of the lead from scavenging deer carcasses and other carcasses that have been shot and left in the woods," he said.
He says lead bullets used to kill game are killing these symbols of strength and freedom. He's calling on hunters to make a small change that could have a big impact.
"The most direct thing would be to switch - if you're deer hunting for instance - switch to copper bullets instead of lead," Browning said.
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|Stuffy English author Giles De'Ath (Hurt), barely on speaking terms with the 20th century, wanders into the wrong theatre, encounters a teen exploitation flick and becomes obsessed with Ronnie Bostock (Priestley), one of the movie's "stars." De'Ath's obsession leads to his discovery of fan magazines, TV, and video, which provide some moments of amusement as he comes to grips with the technology. It also leads Giles to seek out Bostock at his home on Long Island, where Hurt shines as Giles tries to reconcile his dignity and increasingly irrational behavior. Priestley does a fine job lampooning his own image (while not exactly dispelling it), and the supporting characters (especially Chaykin's diner owner) are appropriately quirky. Subtle reworking of "Death in Venice," based on a novel by Gilbert Adair, has its moments, but is probably best enjoyed by the same type of people who would like De'Ath's books.
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Austin-Healey was a British sports car make. The marque was established through a joint-venture arrangement, set up in 1952 between Leonard Lord of the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and the Donald Healey Motor Company, a renowned automotive engineering and design firm.Austin-Healey cars were produced until 1972 when the 20-year agreement between Healey and Austin came to an end. Donald Healey left the company in 1968 when British Motor Holdings (BMC had merged with Jaguar Cars in 1966 to form BMH) was merged into British Leyland. Healey joined Jensen Motors who had been making bodies for the "big Healeys" since their inception in 1952, and became their chairman in 1972.


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This biography, written by Stephanie Gibson, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 2010.
Peter James Blake was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 1 October 1948, and raised in the suburb of Bayswater on the northern edge of the Waitematā Harbour. His father, Brian Blake, had emigrated from England in 1920 and worked as an artist and art director for an advertising firm in Auckland. In 1940 Brian married New Zealander Joyce Hilda Wilson, a photography engraver. Peter was the second of their four children.
A passion for sailing
Peter began sailing at the age of five in the family Frostply dinghy. When he turned eight, his father built him a P-class dinghy, christened Pee Bee. At fourteen he moved into the larger Z-class. Over the next few years Peter became increasingly passionate about sailing and offshore racing. At 18, with the help of his brother, Tony, he built his first keel yacht, called Bandit, in which they won the New Zealand Junior Offshore Group Championship in the 1967/68 season. Sailing on the family yacht, Ladybird, during this period was to influence Peter's understanding of ocean racing and yacht design.
Peter was educated at Bayswater Primary School and Belmont Intermediate, then Takapuna Grammar School. He attended Auckland Technical Institute from 1966 to 1969 to study mechanical engineering, gaining the New Zealand Certificate of Engineering.
First international races
Blake's graduation through the small-boat classes and his hands-on approach to boats stood him in good stead as he began his international sailing career from England as watch leader on Ocean Spirit in the inaugural Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro race in 1971. Ocean Spirit's English co-skippers, Leslie Williams and Robin Knox-Johnston, recognised Blake's abilities in leadership and seamanship and invited him onboard Burton Cutter as watch leader for the inaugural Whitbread Round the World race in 1973–74.
In between races, Blake worked mainly for Auckland mast manufacturer Yachtspars from 1974 to 1977, but also briefly as an industrial sales engineer. He skippered a yacht owned by an Arab industrialist based in Beirut in 1975 and gained a private pilot's licence in England that year.
In 1977, Williams and Knox-Johnston invited Blake to be watch leader on Heath's Condor for the second Whitbread Round the World race. While refitting Heath's Condor after the race in the village of Emsworth on the south coast of England, Peter met Philippa (Pippa) Jane Glanville at the Emsworth Sailing Club. They married in Emsworth on 25 August 1979. In between periods of living in Auckland, they settled at Pippa's family home in Emsworth on the edge of Chichester Harbour. They had a daughter and a son.


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Since the dawn of the Internet, security suites have been a necessary evil to fend off the growing threat of spyware, malware, viruses, crackers and spoofing. Of course, they're never a good substitute for the use of safe practices based upon an up-to-date knowledge of current computing security issues, but they provide a sensible compromise for the majority of us who don't have time to keep abreast of every security development as it happens.
As with any product sold on the basis of fear, many such suites are keen to tell you what a good job they're doing, rather than concentrating on getting the job done. It's common to see repeated pop-up messages, desktop branding and constant reminders that your security suite is keeping you protected. Not only is this an irritant that confuses novice users, but it also lulls users into a false sense of security, because no suite can provide total protection against emerging threats.
Bullguard is refreshingly different in this respect. You receive Windows-style balloon messages when the firewall blocks events, but the only desktop modifications are a shortcut and a System tray icon. Some of its big-name competitors could learn a thing or two about modesty from Bullguard. This doesn't mean that the suite is short on features.
Bullguard 8.0 provides the familiar protection against viruses and spyware. It includes a firewall that's easy to configure and a spam filter to protect email received using Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird.
Online backup
A notable improvement over many security suites is the inclusion of an online backup module. Ensuring that you have a safe copy of your important data is the cornerstone of good security. If your data becomes mangled by an infection, you can start again with a fresh installation and restored data. Yet until recently, this wasn't a feature offered by most security suites. Improved bandwidth and cheap online storage have made this easier to provide, but it's still a laudable development.
You'll need a broadband connection to make use of the back-up module and you have to set up an account with Bullguard. Trial users receive 100MB of back-up space, but if you buy Bullguard then you're given a year's subscription and 5GB of backup space. If you need any more then you can upgrade to a Silver or Gold subscription, which provide 7GB or 15GB respectively. These cost £55 or £95 depending on which one you choose.
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The anti-virus and anti-spyware module is combined, so that a scan of your machine covers both sets of nasties. By default, you're protected by real-time monitoring and automatic updating. The firewall comes preconfigured to cover most Internet use patterns, but you can override this and set complex rules.
The Spamfilter inserts a block button in your email client and it works collaboratively with other Bullguard users. When you identify a message as spam, other users benefit from your identification and vice versa. You can set up whitelists of addresses that you want to receive messages from and blacklists for senders to block.
Bullguard's main competition comes from Norton Internet Security and McAfee's suite. The former has no online backup, while the latter includes it but at a significantly higher price. Bullguard gives the closest thing you'll get to complete protection while retaining a user-friendly approach and an affordable price.


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Model Bella Hadid remains "great friends" with R&B star The Weeknd, despite their recent love split.
The young couple dated for almost two years before busy schedules reportedly forced the pair to part ways in early November, but Bella proved she had nothing but love for the singer as they reunited in Paris, France on Wednesday, at the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
The Weeknd performed as his ex-girlfriend made her runway debut for the top lingerie brand at the Grand Palais.
In photos taken at the big bash, Bella, wearing a lacy grey bodice, smiled at the Can't Feel My Face hitmaker as she walked towards him, while he appeared to only have eyes for the beauty as he watched her strut past on the catwalk, which doubled as his stage.
Before the event got underway, Bella told Entertainment Tonight that coming face to face with The Weeknd wouldn't be awkward at all, as their break-up had been amicable.
Abel got eyes for Bella only @bellahadid@theweeknd#VSFS2016pic.twitter.com/nsgxEHQtos— belgie (@queenshadid) November 30, 2016
"He's the best, we're still great friends," she explained. "I'm excited. It's his second show (for Victoria's Secret), so I know he's gonna kill it."
Bella also had the support of her older sister, Gigi, at the show - the 21-year-old returned for her second year as a Victoria's Secret Angel in Paris, making the Hadids the first siblings to appear in one of the brand's shows.
Their mother, former model Yolanda Hadid, also flew to Paris to cheer on her daughters from the audience.
"She's the cutest thing on the planet and I'm so happy she is here," Bella smiled. "She got in yesterday. We had a little dinner and she's just my comfort."
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, which also features a performance from Lady Gaga and models Kendall Jenner, Adriana Lima, Martha Hunt and Lily Aldridge, is set to air around the globe in the coming weeks.
Bella Hadid heaped praise on her ex The Weeknd for helping her feel great on the runway at the Victoria Secret Fashion Show in Paris on Wednesday night.
The day after the big lingerie showcase, Bella is still coming down from the fashion show high and she took to Instagram to thank her ex for being there for her.
"I can't believe it! I was smiling SO HUGE on the inside I promise!!!!," she captioned a shot of her walking down the runway with her ex singing in the background. "The most fun and nerve-racking experience of my life but I wish I could do it over and over and over again!!!!! Thank you @theweeknd for being the best and most incredible performer on the planet. You KILLED it, as always."
She also thanked "the whole VS family" for "believing in me".
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In addition to medications, ]]>alcoholism]]> treatment programs use counseling and group therapy to help you stop drinking. Most alcoholics need help to recover from their disease. With support and treatment, many people are able to stop drinking and rebuild their lives.
Self-Help Groups
Alcoholics Anonymous
Self-help groups are the most commonly sought source of help for alcohol-related problems. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is one of the most well-known self-help groups. AA emphasizes person-to-person, group relationships, and commitment to recovery. Meetings consist mainly of discussions about the participants' problems with alcohol and testimonials from those who have recovered. AA outlines 12 consecutive activities, or steps, that you should achieve during the recovery process. You can become involved with AA before entering professional treatment, as a part of it, or as aftercare following professional treatment.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A number of ]]>cognitive and behavioral therapies]]> may be used in the treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. These approaches target thoughts and behaviors that may contribute to the abuse of alcohol. Cognitive behavioral interventions have been shown to improve mood and reduce substance abuse.
Aversive conditioning is a behavioral approach in which the consumption of alcohol is associated with a wide range of noxious stimuli. Another approach, self-control training, can help you reduce your intake of alcohol without totally abstaining. A variety of coping skills and stress management techniques may also be used.
Relapse prevention will help you recognize early warning signs of relapse. You will identify high-risk situations, such as parties and sporting events, and learn to assess your own vulnerability to relapse. You will learn coping skills to help you avoid or remove yourself from risky situations. You are also taught how to handle a relapse so that you don't become discouraged and lose confidence.
Psychosocial Therapy
Motivational Enhancement Therapy
Motivational enhancement therapy (MET) is based on the assumption that you have the responsibility and capacity for change. Your therapist begins by providing you with individualized feedback about the effects of your drinking. Working closely together, you and your therapist will explore the benefits of abstinence, review treatment options, and design a plan to implement treatment goals.
Couples Therapy
It is often very helpful to involve a nonalcoholic spouse or significant other in your treatment program. This can increase the likelihood that you will complete therapy and continue to abstain after treatment ends.
Behavioral-marital therapy (BMT) combines a focus on drinking with efforts to strengthen your marital relationship. BMT involves shared activities and the teaching of communication and conflict evaluation skills. Couples therapy may also be combined with the learning and rehearsal of a relapse prevention plan. Among alcoholics with severe marital and drinking problems, the combination approach produces improved marital relations and higher abstinence rates.
Brief Interventions
Brief interventions involve counseling from primary care doctors or nursing staff during five or fewer standard office visits. In brief interventions, you will receive information on the negative consequences of alcohol abuse. You will also learn about strategies and community resources to help you achieve moderation or abstinence.
Most brief interventions are designed to help you if you are abusing alcohol and are at risk for developing alcoholism. They are designed to help you reduce your alcohol consumption. If you are alcohol-dependent, however, you are encouraged to enter specialized treatment with the goal of complete abstinence.
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God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution
Thomas S. Kidd
Basic Books, 2010
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Matt Reynolds
Revolutionary Faith
Editor's note: To celebrate Independence Day, we've reached back to the July/August 2011 issue for Matt Reynolds' review of Thomas Kidd's God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. And if you're in the mood for more reading about the American Revolution and the Founding era, Thomas Kidd himself has a number of pieces on the B&C website examining the subject from multiple angles—not to mention pieces by Mark Noll and many other scholars: more than enough to occupy your entire holiday weekend.
For all the heated debate over the Founders' faith—or lack of faith—the American Revolution is often treated as exclusively a political affair, overlooking how thoroughly a range of religious convictions, yearnings, and forebodings suffused the spirit of '76. Reckoning with the Revolutionary era's many religious dimensions is the mission undertaken, and carried off marvelously, in Thomas Kidd's God of Liberty. A prodigiously productive professor at Baylor University, Kidd—already the author of a Great Awakening history and a forthcoming Patrick Henry biography, among other volumes—has established himself as a leading student of early American religion. In all likelihood, he'll soon be mentioned in the same breath as luminaries like Mark Noll, George Marsden, and Harry Stout, all of whom grace the book's star-studded roster of endorsers. God of Liberty effortlessly straddles the divide between scholarly and popular history, uniting academic rigor with a pleasing readability. It deserves, and hopefully will receive, an audience well beyond the ivory tower.
Readers might naturally expect an explicitly "religious" history of the Revolutionary period to challenge certain secularist interpretations, and if so, they will not come away disappointed. In particular, Kidd debunks the notion that the founders sought to immunize American politics and public life against the influence of religion. Even Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the early statesmen most habitually invoked by contemporary advocates of rigid church-state separation, would have recoiled at the dogmas promulgated by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union. Elements of secularist mythmaking, then, receive a solid thrashing, however politely administered. Nor, it should be added, does this unfailingly fair-minded book hesitate to puncture extravagant conservative claims about the Christian character of the American experiment. Kidd wisely refuses to portray the Revolution as a merely religious or merely political episode. Categories the modern mind instinctively segregates fused too tightly in the Revolutionary mind to permit any facile disentanglement. To the American colonists, Kidd writes, "political and religious liberty were intertwined and inseparable." No less than British encroachment on their pocketbooks, they feared British encroachment on their consciences.
Religiously and politically, the American founders were a diverse lot. Emory University scholar John Witte has helpfully assembled them into four groups: Puritans, who favored the Godly commonwealth model of colonial Massachusetts and Connecticut; civic republicans, who synthesized non-sectarian Protestant morality with an ethic of public spiritedness redolent of ancient Greece and Rome; evangelicals, who preached the redeeming power of the new birth; and Enlightenment skeptics, who sought the scientific axioms behind a divinely-ordered cosmos. In Witte's telling, the Puritans and civic republicans united on behalf of government support for religion, setting aside divergent perspectives on the specifics of Calvinist theology. And the evangelicals and Enlightenment skeptics, reaching across a more pronounced theological gulf, fought to dismantle structures of state sponsorship and control.
Nowhere in God of Liberty does Kidd refer explicitly to Witte's classification scheme, but the echoes shouldn't be missed. For the signal achievement of this book is to re-create the religious atmosphere—the matrix of principled alliances, marriages of convenience, bitter feuds, and surly standoffs—within which a common set of Revolutionary ideals arose and gained momentum. Especially in the unlikely collaboration between devout evangelicals and their deistic detractors, Kidd locates the genesis of remarkably durable beliefs about American identity and purpose. At no point, he insists, was the struggle with Britain "simply about unfair taxes and colonial politics." Rather, "religion, both during the Revolution and afterwards, provided essential moral and political principles to the revolutionaries and forged the new American nation."
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In Men In Black III Will Smith travels back in time, for important alien reasons, and he meets up with the younger Tommy Lee Jones (played by Josh Brolin). How well does it work? See for yourself!
This new massive collection of MIB III clips, plus 14 mins of behind the scenes footage, is a shrine to how good Brolin is at playing TLJ — and it's kind of creepy, but also super cute.
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Merenptah 1213 – 1203 BC
In his last years, Rameses II had allowed the whole of the west side of the Delta to fall into the hands of foreigners, and on the east side the native Egyptians were being rapidly ousted by foreign settlers. His extravagant building projects had damaged the economy of the country and the people were impoverished. Now, through neglect, Egypt was in danger of losing the whole Delta, first to foreign immigrants and then by armed invasion.
This is the situation Rameses' son, Merenptah, inherited. He spent the first few years of his reign making preparations for the struggle which he knew to be inevitable. For the first time in over 400 years, since the Hyksos shepherd kings had seized the delta at the end of the middle kingdom, Egypt was in danger of being overrun.
The Libyan chief, Meryawy, had decided to attack and conquer the Delta he was convinced of an easy victory believing the Egyptians to have grown soft. So confident was he that he brought his wife and children and all his possessions with him.
The night before the decisive battle Merenptah had a prophetic dream, "His Majesty saw in a dream as if a statue of the god Ptah stood before his Majesty. He said, while holding out a sword to him, 'Take it and banish fear from thee."
Merenptah had stationed archers in strategic positions, and they poured their arrows into the invading armies. "The bow -men of his Majesty spent six hours of destruction among them, then they were delivered to the sword."
Then when the enemy showed signs of breaking, Merenptah let loose his charioteers among them. He had promised his people that he would bring the enemy "like netted fish on their bellies", and he fulfilled his promise. His Triumph-Song shows that he regarded the defeat of the Libyans not so much as a great victory but rather as a deliverance.
"To Egypt has come great joy. The people speak of the victories which King Merenptah has won against the Tahenu: How beloved is he, our victorious Ruler! How magnified is he among the gods! How fortunate is he, the commanding Lord!
Sit down happily and talk, or walk far out on the roads, for now there is no fear in the hearts of the people.
The fortresses are abandoned, the wells are reopened; the messengers loiter under the battlements, cool from the sun; the soldiers lie asleep, even the border-scouts go in the fields as they list.
The herds of the field need no herdsmen when crossing the fullness of the stream. No more is there the raising of a shout in the night, 'Stop! Someone is coming! Someone is coming speaking a foreign language!' Everyone comes and goes with singing, and no longer is heard the sighing lament of men.
The towns are settled anew, and the husband man eats of the harvest that he himself sowed.
God has turned again towards Egypt, for King Merenptah was born, destined to be her protector."
The defeat of the Libyans saved Egypt from utter ruin but her economic and political decline continued at a steady pace. The only other record of this time is of a grain shipment to the Hittites to relieve a famine so it seems the treaty between the two peoples continued to hold firm.
The rest of the dynasty is torn by political struggles for the throne. These pharaohs were all weaklings and their disputes only served to plunge the country into civil disorder.
"The land of Egypt was overthrown. Every man was his own guide, they had no superiors. The land was in chiefships and princedoms, each killed the other among noble and mean."
Ancient Egyptian Anecdotes
The Ancient Egyptians in their own words
Illustrated Papyri translations edited for the modern reader.


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Status of telescopes:
SRO50 is up and running.
BSM_South is up and running.
W30 is up and running. We are in the process of combining the W28, W30, K28 and K35 queues to observe priority targets on W30 until other network telescopes come on-line.
BSM_Berry is on the roof of HQ. It has been polar aligned and first light images have been taken. ACP Scheduler is being installed and configured, and the queues filled, in preparation for initial automation tests, which should occur in a week or so, weather dependent. Its high priority targets will be new transients, along with AZ Cas and b Per. Gary Walker is building an automated enclosure for BSM_Berry; until that is available, a tarp is used to protect the telescope and needs to be taken off/put on every night.
TMO61 has had several nights of automated scheduling. We are still processing these images manually, but will move to the automated pipeline soon. There are a couple of tasks yet to be performed with TMO61. We have the final QSI-683 CCD camera now at HQ, and will be doing lab tests to determine its performance. We will then load 3 filters and send the camera to NMSU. They will take the current UBVRI filters out of the QSI-583 and then mount the new camera and test. If everything works well, the 583 will be returned. Jon Holtzman also has to shim the guide camera outwards for better focus, and limit/home switches need to be added to the mount. We also hope to get a Boltwood cloud sensor for this system for more safety during remote observing.
OC61 was affected by the January lightning strike. The Robofocus control board was damaged and needed to be replaced. The Windows computer just failed, likely due to some transient related to the strike. Otherwise, the news is good. Jerry Foote determined the cause of the mount runaway, and that has been fixed. The University of Canterbury shop has built a peripheral control unit that enables computer-controlled operation of the mirror cover, as well as home switches and absolute rough encoders for the mount, and a new slider for instruments, giving us the option of mounting the eShel spectrograph. This new USB box needs to be incorporated into the ACP scripting software. John Gross has customized the Scheduler to work well in the OC61 environment, and we are ready to run fully automated as soon as the computer is fixed.
All other network telescopes are farther behind in their construction or commissioning; we'll announce when they are available for use.
Those programs that have been accepted by the TAC will be added to the various operational queues next week.


text: Workhouse Ceramics Program 1 Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Hi Folks, Call for Entries for the 4th Annual Workhouse Clay National 2014 will be available at www.juriedartservices.com on December 11, 2013. Deadline is May 7, 2014 Exhibit runs August 2-September 7, 2014 I have attached a PDF of the Prospectus. Juror for 2014 is Richard Notkin Richard Notkin is a full-time studio artist who lives and works in Helena, Montana. He received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1970, and an MFA from the University of California, Davis in 1973. Richard has worked mainly in ceramics for over forty-one years, averaging over one solo exhibition per year. His series of Yixing (China) inspired teapots and ceramic sculptures have been exhibited internationally and are in more than 65 public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan. He has held visiting artist positions and conducted over 300 workshops throughout the world. Among his awards, Richard has received three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2008, Notkin was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council, and was also awarded a USA Hoi Fellowship by the United States Artists Thank you for your support and Good Luck! Dale Marhanka www.workhouseceramics.org Clay National 2014 Brochure Final low res.pdf Clay National 2014 Brochure Final low res.pdf Link to post Share on other sites


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There year is over, let's take inventory on all this eCommerce. What was good? What was worth it? Find out here, and only here.
It's been a long year, and this thing now has mildew on it. I should probably get a new one, but replacing these things is such a pain. I give it a B+ for trying real hard to repel all that mold, no easy fate.
I put this hard drive in my PS3, which has supplied me with hours of entertainment. A+
I think I lost both of these shits, they get a "thumbs down."
What was I thinking? 2/10
I think I still have this one, keeps my iPhone a-chuggin'! 10/10!
No memory of this, 1/10
My favorite movie of the year, in highest quality video fidelity. I haven't watched it yet because no one wants to watch it again. 8/10
I played this for a couple weeks, but the graphics are so bad it started to really bum me out. 70%
I think this is plugged into an old radio, who the hell knows. These cables are shackles that bind us to lesser things. B+
I think this broke, I give it a "pass"
Buying olive oil... on the internet? Only in 2013. I give our sci-fi present a 10/10
These FUCKING SUCK, FUCK YOU, THEY WONT EVEN FIT IN MY G*DDAMN EAR HOLES 0/10
These sound fantastic, but the swiveling cords are tricky. 8/10
These are very comfortable (and a two pack! bargain alert!) but I realized that when I wore them I started to have intense high school anxiety dreams so I ditched 'em. B-
Hasn't burst into flames, so I give this USB charger a "gold star"
Best gadget purchase in a long time. If you love to read you'll love to read on this thing. If you don't love to read, sounds like you're a real dirtbag, but this gadget is "pay dirt" so I give it an A+
I never thought a shower curtain rod could change my life, and I was right. But this thing keeps my shower curtain suspended while I shower, naked, preventing spilled water and bruised ego—don't want strangers seeing your wet naked hide while you clean up. So this thing gets an 8/10. Brushed nickle? Nice.
This thingy works very well but it reminds me of my mortality so I give it a 0/10
Jesus christ how many of these cords did I buy? Where did they all go? What a scam. 89%
As part of my new year regimen of gradual moral self-perfection, I got this gum so I would stop bothering my coworkers for gum. It tastes a little bit too much like toothpaste, and it comes in a container shaped for car cup holders, but hey, such is life. 7/10
I was going to give this to my dad for Christmas but I forgot it was in my backpack and now it's on my coffee table. Tough shit, pops. 10/10
These made my boots more comfortable but you have to cut them yourself so they'll fit in the boots... made me feel like some sort of medieval shoe peon sitting on the floor cutting food pads, but I guess we've all got problems. B
This is on a shelf in my apartment and I will probably never see it again. Two gold stars.
My friend Lindsey drew something for me, so I framed it. A+ for friendship.
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The Society of Professional Journalists and its Utah chapter are not the only groups using "awards" to spotlight agencies that withhold information from the public.
Investigative Reporters and Editors has created a "Golden Padlock" award to highlight government agencies and officials that stymie efforts at open government and transparency.
IRE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving investigative journalism, awarded the first Golden Padlock to the U.S. Border Patrol, for holding back details on shootings involving its agents along the border with Mexico that resulted in several deaths.
"The U.S. Border Patrol's resounding silence on fatal shootings involving its agents epitomizes the kind of intransigence for which this award was created," IRE President David Cay Johnston said in a statement issued by the group. "Accountability is an essential element of any public agency, but all the more so when its agents are empowered to fire weapons that kill. The Border Agency appears to have forgotten that duty."
Other nominees for the award included the New Jersey Transit Authority for giving reporters a completely blacked-out copy of its hurricane-response plan; and the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which took five years to produce a requested document on Lyme disease.
IRE also added the U.S. Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder for revelations that the department was monitoring journalists' phone records.


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Music App-Maker Smule Adds More Voices, Buys Music App-Maker Khush
Smule, the company that makes cool music-making apps like Magic Piano and Ocarina, has bought Khush, the company that makes cool music-making apps like Songify.
The companies aren't disclosing details except to note that it's a cash and stock deal. Smule has more of the former because it just raised a $12 million funding round, and some of that is being transfered directly to Atlanta-based Khush.
The logic here is pretty simple: The two companies can combine tech, and just as important, they can combine their installed base — together they've moved 35 million apps — to promote/distribute more apps.
All of that activity, by the way, remains confined to Apple and its iOS ecosystem. Neither company makes apps for Google's Android operating system, pretty much for the same reasons that Smule co-founder Jeff Smith explained to me more than a year ago.
If you want to raise a skeptical eye, it would be perfectly fair to point out that both companies traffic in novelty items that rely on gimmicks like "auto-tuning" people's voices. And that while both companies insist that they're really trying to make music-creation a social experience, you probably don't want to hear most of your friends' attempts to make music.
But who cares? If people like the apps, they like the apps. For insight into the brains that make the apps popular, check out this excellent profile of Smule's chief brainiac Ge Wang, via the New York Times magazine's Rob Walker.
You can also see Wang, Smith and their new employees Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia in this clever announcement video; below that is the interview I shot with Smith back in March 2010.


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Dead Man Found On Ptown Beach Identified
The body of a man found on a Provincetown beach on Monday morning has been identified as Shannon T. Fleming, 42, of Albany, N.Y., as reported by the web site Wicked Local Provincetown and the Provincetown Banner.
His identify was revealed on Tuesday by Michael Trudeau, Cape & Islands first assistant district attorney.
"Preliminary investigation suggests that foul play was not involved," he said in the Banner report.
He added that an autopsy will be conducted on Tuesday or Wednesday but toxicology tests may take weeks before the results will be made public.
"I don't think we'll have the final results for some time," he said.
The location of the body was said to be, according to the Banner, "close to the high-water line under the deck where, at night, men are known to congregate."
"The investigation would suggest that he was on the beach area and not in the water [when he died]," Trudeau said Monday.
The area, euphemistically known as the Dick Dock, has been a late-night hook-up spot for decades. It is beneath the deck of the Boatslip, a popular resort best-known for its daily tea dances during the season.
Fleming was found early on Monday by one or more dogwalkers, who called the police. Detectives from the State Police were called in.
Fleming's death occurred at the start of Carnival, the busiest tourist week of the year in Provincetown, which peaks on Thursday when the annual parade brings upwards of 50,000 people to the Cape Cod resort.


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CamelBak has been making some incredible new features in their latest hydration packs. First, the Antidote bladder makes filling and cleaning super easy. Then, the lumbar packs are comfortable and provide freedom of movement by moving the position of where the water is carried. But the one feature that was always missing from CamelBak packs that other brands offered, was a better back panel to provide air flow and articulation. CamelBak has just solved that for 2013.
Seth shows us some highlights of CamelBak's latest offerings for 2013 with the brand new Volt 13 LR, the updated Charge LR and the M.U.L.E. NV with the new NV back panel technology for improved air flow and pack articulation. Also updated this year, is a very simple, but effective helmet hook on all packs.
We have been using the lumbar mounted bladders for a year now and if you haven't tried one of these packs yet, you really should. They really free up your back and give you a "lighter" feel (the water load is carried lower on your body) that really makes a difference. We also had a chance to do a few runs down the mountains in Park City, UT with the 2013 MULE NV and found it to be a great pack with lots of storage options and a very easy to use bladder system. The NV back panel really does articulate well and air flow between your sweaty back and the pack is vastly improved. The only drawback I could find with the new packs is that the articulating panels do add a certain amount of weight. If you desire better airflow but don't need the articulating panels (and the extra storage space), the Volt and the simpler "XV" back panel may be more to your liking.
Volt 13 LR
- 100 oz lumbar based
- Ultralight material
- New antidote 100z lumbar reservoir – 3 liters of water
- Low-profile fit
- Rear loading access through back panel
- Brand new NV back panel technology for 2013
- Raised pods that articulate with your back and each pod itself articulates on panel
- Cross channel air flow, vertical flow through the pods
- Whole pack bends with your back
- Brand new helmet hook
- One of the best selling packs
- Practical for any type riding
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Lawmakers demand changes to loopholes in restraining orders
Legislators say there are many problems with state's laws
After the tragedy in Brookfield and the shootout following a domestic dispute in Waukesha two days later, many are wondering how the shooting suspects were able to get guns when they had restraining orders barring them from having weapons.
Legislators said there are many problems with the state's laws, but they're not necessarily in agreement on how to fix them.
Authorities said the men -- one involved in the shooting at the Azana Salon and Spa in Brookfield on Sunday and the other in another domestic violence in Waukesha -- had restraining orders issued against them by their estranged wives and both were able to get guns.
"The gun control laws, while they were violated, wouldn't have prevented these (incidents) because criminals never buy them legally, and this man was a criminal. Both of them (are) absolute animals," said Rick Baas, of Milwaukee County GOP.
"After you have a domestic abuse restraining order issued on you that requires you to turn in your guns, you need to return back to court in two days and turn in you guns. If you don't, you should be under arrest," said Democrat Rep. Jon Richards.
12 News has learned Radcliffe Haughton was asked to deliver any firearms to the sheriff three days before he stormed into the spa, killing his wife and two co-workers. Authorities said Haughton purchased the gun online the day before the attack.
According to court records, Richard Petarius,76, went to his ex-wife's house in Waukesha on Tuesday and got into a shootout with police, violating a restraining order that asked him to surrender his three firearms to his son.
There is no enforcement for people who are issued restraining orders to turn in their firearms, and lawmakers said they are hoping to create a standardized system to change that next session.
"If you do have a restraining order on you, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun either through a gun store or private sale. We should also make it easier for police to remove guns from the scenes of domestic violence if they see a gun being used in that incident. Eighteen states have that law on the books right now, (and) Wisconsin should follow suit with that," Richards said.
Several state Republicans, however, said it's not realistic to think changing gun laws will keep deadly weapons out of the hands of criminals. They recommended better ways to enforce the laws in keeping people safe.
"We can do things like use GPS that would give a signal and give the person advance warning that the person is in some exclusionary zone or whatever, but it's something that has to be updated and has to be changed," Baas said.
Lawmakers on both sides hope the issue of protecting domestic violence victims is not a partisan issue for the next legislative session, saying although there are disagreements on how to close the legal loopholes, they're confident something will change.